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Show WHY DREAM.S ARE UNRELIABLE. Only to a few people there comes occasionally in dreams a dim realization real-ization of the unreality f the experience. expe-rience. "After all. It does not matter," ihey are able to say to themselves with more or less conviction. ' This is only a dream.'' Thus one lady, dreaming that she Is trying to kill three large snakes by stamping on them, wonders whit tu 111 dreaming, what It slgulflcs to clream of snakes; and another lady, when sho dreams that sho Is in any unpleasant position about to be shot, for instance often says to herself: "Never mind, I shall wake before it 1 happens." 1 This duality of dreaming consciousness conscious-ness Is a manifestation, and Ihe chief one, of what Is called dissociation, in dissociation we have a phenomenon phenome-non which runs through the whol-of whol-of the dreaming life, and 19 scarcely less fundamental than the process l fusion by which the Imagery is bull; up. The fact that tho reasoning cl dreams is usually had Is due part);, to the absence of memory dementi that would be present to waking con sclousness, and partly to the absence of sensory elements to check the false reasoning which without then appears to be conclusive. That I. tc say, there Is a process of dlssocia tlon by which ordinary channels of Hrfsodatiou am temporarily blocked through exhaustion of the nervous elements, ele-ments, and the conditions prepared for the formation of the? hallucination. North American Jtevlew. i |